{"id":11778,"date":"2010-03-15T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-15T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T10:49:00","slug":"facebook-opens-first-asian-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/11778-facebook-opens-first-asian-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook opens first Asian office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It will supplement Facebook&#8217;s other centers in Palo Alto, California; Dublin, Ireland; and Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of a push to create support centers across time zones, with round-the-clock, multi-lingual support, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect our new office in Hyderabad to tap into the region&#8217;s strong pool of talented people who understand operations and technology, and help us more effectively serve the needs of our users, advertisers and developers around the world,&#8221; Don Faul, director of global online operations, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has seen its number of users rocket to over 400 million since it was founded in 2004. It has about 8 million users in India.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?221148-Facebook-opens-first-Asian-office-in-India&amp;p=3699532#post3699532\"><strong>Facebook opens first Asian office<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Discussion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}